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IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS

IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS

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What is IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS?

IntelliMagic Vision's AI-driven analytics enables z/OS experts to proactively monitor and manage their end-to-end z/OS environment, prevent disruptions, optimize performance, improve support for new applications, reduce software costs, eliminate unnecessary hardware purchases, and preserve the reliability and availability that mainframes…

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10 out of 10
March 04, 2024
Intellimagic provides software as [service] delivery of our mainframe performance data. Using intuitive customizable screens and …
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What is IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS?

IntelliMagic Vision's AI-driven analytics enables z/OS experts to proactively monitor and manage their end-to-end z/OS environment, prevent disruptions, optimize performance, improve support for new applications, reduce software costs, eliminate unnecessary hardware purchases, and preserve…

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What is IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS?

IntelliMagic Vision's AI-driven analytics enables z/OS experts to proactively monitor and manage their end-to-end z/OS environment, prevent disruptions, optimize performance, improve support for new applications, reduce software costs, eliminate unnecessary hardware purchases, and preserve the reliability and availability that mainframes are known for.

IntelliMagic Vision enhances the RMF and SMF data and applies its built-in knowledge to understand how the z/OS architecture handles workloads. This helps to tune z/OS to improve performance and protect availability, and can also help tuning the processor configuration to increase the MIPS of the mainframe hardware.

Boasting expert built-in analytics, IntelliMagic Vision provides an early warning system that automatically identifies issues to service availability before they occur, so performance analysts can quickly and easily prevent performance issues.

IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Features

  • Supported: Predictive Analytics
  • Supported: MLC Cost Optimizer
  • Supported: Rated Metrics and Prioritized Issues in a Single Frame
  • Supported: Graphical User Interface with Easy Drilldowns
  • Supported: Dynamic Thresholds

IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Screenshots

Screenshot of Coupling Facility Health by ApplicationScreenshot of Prioritized list of all Warnings and Exceptions for Workload Manager and LPARScreenshot of Changes can be compared before/after custom time ranges with dynamic filtersScreenshot of Built-in anomaly detection identifies (statistically significant) zOS workload changes and alerts usersScreenshot of Custom dashboards can be built, edited, customized, and shared with sets of dynamic, interactive reports to group reports setsScreenshot of Users can view, interact with, and drill down into zOS Topology - compare topology changes over time

IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Videos

z/OS Systems infrastructure is critical to ensuring availability for end-users, but too often performance analysts are using monitoring tools or methods that are reactive rather than proactive. IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Systems provides performance management for z/OS Syste...
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An application will use most parts of the infrastructure. If something is not working right, a solution should provide integrated visibility across all parts of the infrastructure to identify and diagnose the issue. Using different interfaces for different parts of the infrast...
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Of all the systems in the data center, z/OS produces performance and configuration data in the form of RMF and SMF. But most sites still use a four decades old process that generates hundreds of static reports requiring cumbersome manual interpretation by deep experts. Consequ...
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IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Competitors

IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesAmericas, EMEA, DACH

Frequently Asked Questions

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Reviewers rate Vendor post-sale highest, with a score of 9.6.

The most common users of IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).

IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)0%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)0%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)100%
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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
There are many products that leverage mainframe performance data, each with pros and cons. Intellimagic is valuable for many uses cases that overlap with the other tools simply because the graphical representations are readily consumable by many audiences.
August 26, 2022

An invaluable tool!

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
These are the legacy products that have been used for capacity/performance/billing and report generation over many years. Some are better suited for solutions using programmatic interfaces ( internal billing ), and processing IMS transactional data in particular. For most
tasks, however, Vision can generate charts, provide levels of drill-down, allow a focus on analysis rather than report generation, much faster with greater reliability and less required training than the above products
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
There are many different, and powerful, tools on the market. However, we could not find any other product that supported such a broad range of SMF records, provided IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS' collaboration capabilities, and allowed us to delve into the SMF information from many products with a common set of skills. Additionally, and very importantly, the IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS support is first class. The 'IntelliMagicians' are both experts in the use of their product AND experts in the data that is being reported on. They have many years of experience, excellent relationships with their customers, and a real enthusiasm for analyzing and understanding what is happening in the z/OS systems they are analyzing. We couldn't ask for better partners.
James Schlosser | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Elasticsearch simply cannot handle the amount of data that zOS sends. It also cannot store the long term data. Splunk works fine, but for some reason we only use it for very specific data so I can't compare it to IntelliMagic. However, Splunk likely wouldn't be good for historical data because that's not what it was designed for.
Walter Auerochs | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
RMF Spreadsheet Reporter, RMF XML Toolkit, RMF Performance Monitor, EasySMF for z/OS, Interactive z/OS, SMF Reports on your PC, Spectrum SMF Writer APT ... all these products have subsets of functionality. IIntelliMagic Vision for z/OS operates all parts in a uniform interface. This means that everyone can find a simple way to look into other components of IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  1. Better Ease of Use/Navigation/Intuitiveness.
  2. Better Customizable Reporting/Filtering.
  3. Better In-tool Context-Sensitive Help/Educational Capabilities.
  4. Better High-Level Health Check and Exception Reporting.
  5. Better Root Cause Analytics/Drill-down Capabilities.
  6. Better Predictive Analytics/Disruption Avoidance
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